I find it incredible that some of her supporters insist that Palin is not a quitter. If it looks, talks, and acts like a duck, it is not a swan.

Palin was elected Governor of Alaska during a period of prosperity due to the overinflated prices on crude oil, and she rode the coattails of good fortune as her constituency profited while the lower 48 suffered at the gas pump.

Well, times have changed, oil prices (and hence state revenues) are down, and the same constituency and legislature that had applauded her folksy style have been scrutinizing her management style more carefully.

Bottom line, when the going gets tough, Sarah throws in the towel.

...so here's their new rallying cry: Winners always quit! Winners always quit!

You perhaps, are born alot like your father, he made mistakes he wished you could learn from and not make because of your simular(sic) tendencies. You try your best but you end up in a simular(sic) situation anyway as a result of trying to avoid your fathers mistake. Predictible(sic) and ironic at the same time.

from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

i·ro·ny - 2a. Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs

trag·e·dy - 1a. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances.

LAF - Your illustration is not of irony (unexpected outcome) but of tragedy (outcome expected though not inevitable), akin to your tragic misspellings. "Predictable" and "ironic" are, in themselves, contradictory.

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--"God uses the apparently foolish to move His ways forward."

Well--I believe in God, but I certainly don't believe every self-contradictory thing in the Bible, much less in following each and every fool who parrots the name.

If I meet two people and ask them for directions, and there's one proud "fool for God" who is obviously giving me incorrect directions, and one atheist who plainly knows better what he or she is talking about, I'm going to follow the more competent and thoughtful direction-giver. This "being thought a fool for God" stuff meant being ready to accept ridicule for believing things not readily demonstrable. It didn't mean believing the completely implausible and actually seeking to become more stupid.

In practice, when it's used to justify our leaders' prosecution of war, two glaring flaws in the logic appear immediately:

1) As many, many people have said, there are two sides in a war; if war and the leaders making it are always ordained by God, that doesn't suggest in any way a preference for one leader or the other.

2) Though so many have missed rule #1, however, I confess I've been waiting for Obama to begin a war, so that when conservatives attack him violently no matter why the war was begun, I could say: "well you can't say you support the troops if you don't support their Commander in Chief. Remember? When you said that?" I doubt that any of those who claimed that Bush was ordained war leader by God will say the same thing about Obama, that he also was ordained by God. Their rule will doubtless have a loophole so that they can attack Obama somehow. Every leader is ordained by God! Except the Democrats.

That hateful harpie, Doud, wasted no time to attack Sarah Palin with the basest invective and name-calling I ever read anyplace - except in communist newspapers when I lived there years ago. That utter piece of subhuman garbage - and I mean Doud - ...well, I'm out of breath...

Go ahead Palin, sue me for calling you a currupt public offical and a mental case.

I just can't wait for your criminal trial concerning your house that Todd build with his friends. Friends???

Gotta Sarah!

The response in the main stream media has been most predictable, ironic, and as always, detached from the lives of ordinary Americans who are sick of the “politics of personal destruction”.

Periods go inside the quotation marks.

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wtf?

it sure is in the best interest of the state of Alaska for Sarah Palin to not be their governor. What an embarrassment she has been for Alaska! No one thought anyone would outdo Stevens in stupidity.

What the fuck are you taliking about?

What is your damage beeyotch?

I think I understand, now, what the doctors have been talking about when they say that all politicians have a degree of narcissism, or they wouldn't be able to put themselves out there the way they do.

We are stunned at the disconnect of the Sanfords, Vitters, Edwardses and Spitzers between what they campaign on, what they do in the positions they're elected to and what they do in their personal lives...But we only see it in sexual terms which we can all relate to. Everyone knows someone who has been unfaithful or who has been cheated on if not had the experience themselves - so they have a place in their brain for that.

The words coming out of Mrs. Palin's mouth amaze me. First - that the American public is apathetic. No - we are not. And I don't think we will be again. While referring to the politics of personal destruction - does she not see that the republican party has got an awful lot of people self immolating? Really?

This has helped me understand how the narcissism distorts their world view and makes it - their world view - so inappropriate. Putting oneself in a "happy place' is one thing..but this is something else.

And she is so disconnected, insisting on surrounding herself only with people who will protect her and her decisions (and I will refrain from listing the historical precedents we have for this strategy) that no matter how many coaches or linguists or sarah whisperers they hire, unless they can speak her disconnected "language" they will not be able to win over new converts. What they need is translators.

I read something recently that talked about the language of families with schizophrenic teens and how wrong that language seems to the people who are not used to it. I mention this only because of how the use of language was managed, helping the families very much.

Palin's use of language has no rhythm, it seems 'wrong' in many ways that I cannot begin to list, but I think it boils down to the concept of rhythm - how the brain works when a reaction to thought is created and how it works to form a cohesive response. Palin cannot seem to do both these things at the same time.

Many years ago I saw a sign in a pathology office that said "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit". If this is her tactic, she doesn't have the skills to carry it off. And if things come out of her mouth so badly, I have to wonder what is going in. That scares me most of all. The difference between the brains of progressives and conservatives has been noted very well, but her lack of skills seems to go beyond it.

Palins problem with the press seems to be that they communicate in ways that are socially accepted. There is a long history complete with procedures for writing an article - hell - to writing a paper that she does not seem to know, much less understand.

Tina Fey stands to make a mint with this and I would love to see SNL start a weekly Thursday night half hour prime time program despite threats by Palins attorney to start defamation suits against media and bloggers because they're reporting her words.

Starting now...